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vardathemessage) wrote2004-05-29 12:55 am
vardathemessage) wrote2004-05-29 12:55 am
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Obsessive Viewing Observations
script:
The sound of distant waves rise up.
Other sounds emerge in succession: gunfire, explosions, rinky-tink piano, children at play, bar-room singing, opera ... each enveloping the other like the sound of time itself passing.
What can be heard that is not in the script is
"The modern world of science and invention is of particular interest to women"
...shooting star passes...
"science has released them from much of the age old drudgery... "
Interesting but odd. Perhaps Todd wanted to add a little acknowledgment about the women's liberation movement's influence on the era, along with the gay one.
UPDATE:
Mike of The Whole Shebang Velvet Goldmine podcast identified this as as Amelia Earhart from a 1935 radio broadcast, "A Woman's Place in Science". Todd alludes to the idea of aliens picking up radio broadcasts from Earth, in turn sending ambassadors in spaceships for a visit...
Hence, the film begins and ends with radio!
That weren't no DJ that was hazy cosmic jive.
The sound of distant waves rise up.
Other sounds emerge in succession: gunfire, explosions, rinky-tink piano, children at play, bar-room singing, opera ... each enveloping the other like the sound of time itself passing.
What can be heard that is not in the script is
"The modern world of science and invention is of particular interest to women"
...shooting star passes...
"science has released them from much of the age old drudgery... "
Interesting but odd. Perhaps Todd wanted to add a little acknowledgment about the women's liberation movement's influence on the era, along with the gay one.
UPDATE:
Mike of The Whole Shebang Velvet Goldmine podcast identified this as as Amelia Earhart from a 1935 radio broadcast, "A Woman's Place in Science". Todd alludes to the idea of aliens picking up radio broadcasts from Earth, in turn sending ambassadors in spaceships for a visit...
Hence, the film begins and ends with radio!
That weren't no DJ that was hazy cosmic jive.
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In interviews on NPR (which you can listen to by going here:http://freshair.npr.org/guest_fa.jhtml)
he evinces a fascination with women, but not in that "queenie" way; rather, he sees women has having a kind of intuitive "knowing" about life, that is not much appreciated or allowed to have a serious impact on the world,which is a detriment.
That sounds like a sentiment from Family Circle or something I know, but Virginia Woolf (sp?) was of the same mind: that society would never be really advanced until women were free'd up from domestic drudgery on the one hand, and on the other, until the male world began to recognize that the things women are so good at, (including attention to the domestic and intimate), are crucial to developiing a livable world, beyond commerce and war.
Of course this still hasn't happened. The scapegoating of the females involved in the Iraqi prison debacle are proof of that. Notice that it's the two women (those devious Eves!)who are being singled out for the harshest treatment, while the scores of men involved are getting their wrists slapped.
Oh now here I've gone way off topic again! My point is, that Todd blames the lies we let ourselves live within for the state of the world, rather than blaming women.
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